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07 - MAI 03/10 - La Presse (1)

MAI 2007

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KMC Diary (rédigé plus tard) - Milk and biscuits for the kids. I left them with this and books and games and went to have a quick shower/wash my hair. M tired—sitting on my lap—I read the story of Mog (favourite children's book).Brush teeth. To the bedroom with the kids. M pulls away and puts her head on pillow. Kisses goodnight for M. Pulled the door to as far as possible without shutting it. Silence. Dry hair. Put make-up on. Glass of wine. Restaurant.

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KMC Diary (idem) - No sleep, Gerry and I
started looking through the streets around 06.00 as it was starting to
get light. Nobody around. Why not? Desperate. Minutes seem like
hours. Outside of the apartments masses of people asking questions about
that night and for descriptions of Madeleine. Long day.Nobody from
the police introduced themselves. Nobody offered us a drink or food. All
the police dressed informally and smoking. No sympathy was shown and
far from inspiring.I believe my statement would have been around
15.00 and such. They allowed G to come in with me but seated
behind me. Translator present.The police officer who took us by car
to the station was the one asking the questions and afterwards typed the
answers on a typewriter. Morose.We left the police station around
7.30pm to 8pm. After 15 minutes we received a call from the PJ saying we
had to go back but they didn't tell us why. We turned around and flew
back at around 200 kilometres an hour. Once again frightening. Did they
find her? Please God. Is she dead? Prayers. We arrived—they showed us a
photo of a girl they'd forgotten to show us from the close circuit TV
footage. Not M. Devastating.

A spokesman for Mark Warner said there had been no evidence of a forced
entry. However, the shutters had been slid up and the bedroom window
opened after the McCanns had left. The McCanns scoured the lanes above the resort, shouting for her in the dark. FAUXHoliday
girl abducted, police say - BBC

Guilhermino Encarnação, director of the judicial police in the Faro
region, said officers are working on the assumption she is being held
between 3km and 5km (1.8 and 3.1 miles) from the resort. Responding to criticism that the police had been slow to respond, Mr Encarnação said officers arrived at the scene 10 minutes after being
alerted to the disappearance. 25 minutes.

Madeleine, who turns four next Friday, was last seen by her father at about 21h00 local time. When
Mrs McCann went to check on her about an hour later, she found the
bedroom's outside shutter and window had been opened and her daughter
missing. Resort staff and guests helped the McCanns search the complex grounds into Friday morning and police were notified. Les MC n'ont pas cherché.

Mr McCann's sister Philomena, criticised the Portuguese police for
initially "playing down" their response to the disappearance. She has been in phone contact with her brother. C'est donc lui la source de ces opinions négatives. Speaking from her home in Glasgow, she said: "He thinks it's just too little, too late. "It
was hours before the local police turned upFAUX qnd we're talking two
bobbies that totally downplayed the incident and said that Maddie had
maybe just wandered off." The Tweedle ones.

The Mayor of Lagos, Julio Barraso, defended the police from accusations that they had been too slow to act.

approximately 800 of them have helped comb an area between 3-5km from
the resort alongside teams of police officers and firefighters, as well
as members of the Red Cross.

We have been looking in the bins, we've been looking on the pathways, says Dave Shelton 38 Manchester-born : "I came here first on Friday morning, I speak a little bit of
Portuguese and was helping police knock on the doors of all the
apartments.

The family is said to have chosen the resortbecause of its childcare facilities. But
with the restaurant they were dining in within the same complex and
within sight of their apartment, they chose not take advantage of these
on Thursday night, instead deciding to check in on their children
periodically, resort manager John Hill confirmed. Papers
ponder 'holiday abduction' - BBC

Guilhermino Encarnação said detectives have a suspect in mind, but they refused to
reveal any details for fear of endangering Madeleine's life. He said police were hopeful she was still alive and believe she is still in Portugal.

She was last seen by her father Gerry sleeping soundly at about 9pm on Thursday at the Ocean Club resort in the seaside village of Praia da Luz (environ 1000 habitants) in the south-western Algarve. But at 10pm when her mother Kate went to check on the children, she found the shutter pushed up, the bedroom window open and her daughter – described as "happy-go-lucky" – gone.

On trouve toutes sortes d'excuses aux malheureux MC ; they left their children alone, ironically, because they didn’t trust a
stranger to care for them. They preferred to check on them themselves
every 30 minutes.

The Independent has the headline: "A stolen child, a missed birthday, a baffling mystery". The Sun urges its readers to wear yellow clothing today to show their support for her family.And
in the Express, it is the cruellest of days for Madeleine's parents.
The paper's report is accompanied by the headline: "The saddest
birthday".

A new reward of £1.5 million has been offered by a group of business
figures (dont Sir Richard Branson et Sir Philip Green), celebrities and a national newspaper for information leading to
the safe return of missing Madeleine McCann. Donc il y a maintenant 2,5 millions de livres en promesse de don.

La tendance est de tout superviser grâce à la technologie, mais this use of technology is disproportionate to the actual risk. It could
make children unnecessarily anxious and it almost encourages them to be
afraid of any adult when the risk of 'stranger danger' is actually
relatively low.'